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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Mail / May 2008Extracting embedded graphics
A relative recently sent me an e-mail with scanned family photos from long ago -- which, unfortunately, were embedded within the e-mail rather than attached to the message. Can anyone tell me how to extract such embedded photos? Thanks! Right click | Save As?  SignatureBruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA >A relative recently sent me an e-mail with scanned family photos from long > ago -- which, unfortunately, were embedded within the e-mail rather than > attached to the message. Can anyone tell me how to extract such embedded > photos? > > Thanks! Your suggestion didn't work, for one because you didn't specify what to right click on. And when I opened the message, there wasn't anything to right click on anyway! Nevertheless, your idea of right clicking was food for thought, and after playing around a bit I discovered that when I hit the "Reply" button, I was then able to right click on the photo and copy it ("save as" wasn't one of the available options). I then inserted the photo in an empty new file in Vista Paint and subsequently saved it as a TIF file, which I'll now be working on in Adobe Photoshop Elements to improve its quality. So, although your suggestion didn't work directly, it did point me in the right direction, so thanks! > Right click | Save As? > >A relative recently sent me an e-mail with scanned family photos from long [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > > > Thanks! If you put the cursor on an embedded picture and right click on it, one of the options should be Save Picture As and save it to a folder of your choice. I didn't elaborate since you said the pictures were embedded and not attached, and I wrongly assumed you would right click on the picture. If the pictures are embedded, I'm not sure what you mean by: <QP> there wasn't anything to right click on anyway! </QP> If the pictures are embedded, or attached, you should be able to see them and have the same Save Picture As option. SignatureBruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA > Your suggestion didn't work, for one because you didn't specify what to > right [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> > >> > Thanks! You didn't wrongly assume I would right click on the photo. I tried it. Really. Once again: (1) If I simply open the message with its imbedded photo, I can click wherever I want, all over the photo, but it refuses to get "selected", nothing happens, and there's nothing to click on to bring up a right-click context menu. Really. (2) Only when I click on the "Reply" or "Forward" button and can see the copied original message, including the photo, can I select the photo by clicking on it. Really. But (3) Right clicking only brings up the following context-menu options: Cut, Copy, Insert, Select All, Paragraph, and Properties. A couple of other options, in addition to Paragraph, which deal with formatting options, are greyed out. No "Save As" option is visible, either active or greyed out, as far as the eye can see. Really. But even if you're right, which I guess assumes that I've been hallucinating here, this is a non-issue for me now. What matters is that with your suggestion pointing the way to a solution, which I ultimately discovered by experimenting, I'm now able to preserve imbedded photos. It may be an awkward way but it's one that works. So thanks again. Really. > If you put the cursor on an embedded picture and right click on it, one of > the options should be Save Picture As and save it to a folder of your [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > >> > > >> > Thanks! Whoops! My face is red. I looked more closely to what happens when I simply click on the original message to open, and although left-clicking on the photo doesn't show any physical sign of selecting (framing) it, right clicking anywhere on the photo does indeed call up a brief context menu, including Save As. You were absolutely right and I apologize for any confusion. I have a habit -- which I now realize isn't a good habit of -- of first Selecting an item by left-clicking on it before left-clicking to see the context menu. Strangly, this system works when I left click on the message after I've first selected "Reply", etc. Anyway, problem solved and thanks for your completely accurate help. > You didn't wrongly assume I would right click on the photo. I tried it. > Really. Once again: (1) If I simply open the message with its imbedded photo, [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > > >> > > > >> > Thanks! You're welcome. SignatureBruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA > Whoops! My face is red. I looked more closely to what happens when I > simply [quoted text clipped - 90 lines] >> > >> > >> > >> > Thanks! |
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